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Mar 27, 2011
Coming To The Table
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I keep hearing people ask the questions: "What can I do?" and "Where do I begin?" These people stand looking out across this great big world of ours with all of its moaning and groaning and - in their heart of hearts - they want to help, but the tasks seem overwhelming.... Read More + |
Mar 14, 2011
Book Club: Thoughts on Home
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As we come to the end of our journey through The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers On Feasting and Fasting Toward God, it feels like we have traveled to faraway places and now breathe the contented sigh of the return home after a trip well-traveled. In our two final essays, both Laura Bramon Good and Leslie Leyland Fields stir a longing for that roote... Read More + |
Mar 7, 2011
Feasting: On Giving and Receiving
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Once a year they roll over my house like a tidal wave, consuming everything in sight. I work for days preparing, cooking, cleaning—readying the annual feast for our church youth group. And then I get out of the way. I’ve never seen food disappear so fast. This year, I invited our co-pastors to the feast.... Read More + |
Feb 28, 2011
Frail Communicants
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She could not move her arms or legs but she used her eyes to punctuate her words. There were times when she would cry and I would lean over her still body to daub the Kleenex at her lashes--pat down glistening cheeks. When we visited, often the conversation would pause so I could lift the cup to her lips.... Read More + |
Feb 21, 2011
A Recipe for the Eucharistic Life
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On Valentine’s Day I asked my husband what was his most-favorite-most-romantic-date-in-the-whole-wide-world-ever. He thought about it for a while and when he seemed absolutely stumped, I teased, you used to be so romantic!... Read More + |
Feb 14, 2011
Food that Feeds
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The sky is that same saturated blue that I squeezed from a tube of paint this morning and the sun climbs. Day after day of white above and white below has leeched my cheeks of color—whitewashed my spirit from the outside in.... Read More + |
Feb 7, 2011
The School of Fasting
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It was the year that I gave up coffee for Lent. I was working as our church’s Director of Children’s Ministries and the kids and I were discussing what it means to fast--should we give something up, should we take on something new? When the children found out that I had sacrificed coffee, they did what children do. They tortured me.... Read More + |
Jan 31, 2011
Table Grace
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This is week five of our book club discussion on The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers on Feasting and Fasting toward God, edited by Leslie Leyland Fields. Join us every Monday morning as we dig into this feast! When my boys were toddlers they loved to say grace before dinner.... Read More + |
Jan 24, 2011
Eating Well
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This is week four of our book club discussion on The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers on Feasting and Fasting toward God, edited by Leslie Leyland Fields. Join us every Monday morning as we dig into this feast! I remember it like a dream--the Christmas of the open doors.... Read More + |
Jan 17, 2011
On Emulsification
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Attention:Leslie Leyland Fields is offering our HighCalling book club participants a special price on The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers on Feasting and Fasting toward God. Just email her at leslieleylandfields@gmail.com, and she’ll send you the book for $22, including shipping!... Read More + |
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